Healing the Legacies of Slavery
Books
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Joy DeGruy
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation, by Fania E. Davis
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade, by Thomas DeWolf and Sharon Leslie Morgan
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist
When They Call you a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave Trading Dynasty in US History, by Thomas DeWolf
Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, by Andrés Resendéz
Articles
Facing Our Unhealed Past: Slavery and Its Legacy, by Racial Justice Rising
My Family Owned 1,000 Slaves and Profited from the Trade: This is How I am Trying to Make Amends, by Laura Trevelyan
One Side Owned Slaves. The Other Side Started Black History Month. How a Family Heals, by Sandhya Dykes
Why We Must Immediately Cease and Desist Referring to Enslaved People as, “Slaves” by Bridgette L. Hylton
Can America Heal Its Racial Wounds? We Asked Desmond Tutu and His Daughter by Fania Davis & Sarah Van Gelder
The 1619 Project, New York Times Magazine
The Collective Healing that is Owed, by Sarah Lazarovic
“Just Mercy” Attorney Asks U.S. To Reckon with Its Racist Past and Present, interview with Bryan Stevenson
Slave Patrols: An Early Form of American Policing, by Chelsea Hansen
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies are in a Life-or-Death Crisis, by Linda Villarosa
It’s Black Breastfeeding Week. Wondering Why? One Gut-Punching Poem Says it All. by Annie Reneau
Podcasts
Healing Through Restorative Justice
Fania Davis & Konda Mason
Racial Justice in These Times
with Konda Mason and Drew Dellinger
Family Stories, Family Lies
Additional Resources
Southern Poverty Law Center: How Much do You Know about American Slavery? Quiz.
Museums
Experience Sankofa Project Living Museum
The Experience Sankofa Project is an innovative art exhibit that combines installation art with history, set design, modeling, and altars into a comprehensive timeline of African peoples' greatness, oppression, and resistance. The time is now to "look back to move forward" with love, dignity, compassion, and truth. Visit Spearitwurx for booking.
Videos
Color of Fear - What It Means to be American
Wade in the Water
"Wade in the Water" tells the story of a band of enslaved Africans from the past who escape to freedom, only to find themselves in modern day America.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: How is it Different from PTSD?
Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation.
James Baldwin
National Press Club Speech, 1986